better than

Superior to, as in He's no better than Tom at writing a memo . [9th century]
More than, larger in amount or greater in rate, as in My new car can do better than 100 miles an hour , or The new plan will cut better than 15 percent of costs . Some authorities consider this usage colloquial and advise that it be avoided in formal writing. [Late 1500s] Also see better half , def. 1.

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Despite some seismic deaths in the family, Chuck’s life as a child in the '80s is irrefutably better than the one we see him experiencing in Act 2, and certainly more so than the one Marty is enduring in Act 3.

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It still would have been better than his supposed deal with China on trade or the Houthi regime in Yemen on shipping, both of which amount to plenty of bluster followed by retreat.

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Kurashov knew little about it, he said, but he thought anything was better than five more years in the penal colony or being turned out into the streets at the end of his sentence.

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Now, of course, Iran holds a much weaker hand, and it may be that accepting any sort of deal would be better than getting hit with the next several rounds of Israeli strikes.

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Two films into her career, she still writes scenes better than full scripts.

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